The two sides will begin negotiations over selling some or all of the studio’s assets to Colony, which is led by Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a financier who is one of President Trump’s closest advisers.

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Mr. Barrack also has ties of sorts to the Weinsteins. In 2010, Colony teamed up with a group that included Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund to buy Miramax, the first studio that the Weinstein brothers had founded, from Disney for $660 million. Mr. Barrack became chairman of the studio.

When I hear the name in the news the trailer for Grindhouse always flashes through my head. The sleezy nature of having a rapist as the producer kind of brings a real “grindhouse” legitimacy to the film that it didn’t have before.